ES2356392T3 - PACKAGING SET FOR DRINKS. - Google Patents

Abstract

Beverage container (1) for liquids, in which a hole (5), orifice (5) is placed which can be closed again using a closing device (3), where the container (1) ) is essentially or completely parallelepiped, comprising a hollow box-shaped body (2) and the closing device (3), in which a corner of the hollow body in the form of a parallelepiped box (2) is chamfered, corner in which a triangular surface (9) is formed, which connects with the box-shaped body (2), where a tube-shaped piece (4) extends outward from the surface, comprising the hole (5), where the closure device (3) comprises an essentially pyramid-shaped body, designed so that, together with the body (2), it forms the parallelepiped container container (1) when it is held on the triangular surface (9) of the body in box shape (2) and a cavity (6) to receive the piece in the form of your bo (4), and where fixing means (11) that cooperate in the tube-shaped part (4) as well as in the cavity (6) are placed, to retain so that it can be removed and with a tight fit the closing device (3) in the tube-shaped part (4), so that the box-shaped body (2) and the closing device (3) together form a parallelepiped characterized in that the closing device (3 ) has a hole (7) on one of its sides, which opens to the inside of the cavity (6), because a lid that can be opened and that can be closed again (14) is placed to be able to close the hole ( 7) and because the tube-shaped part (4) comprises a tight-fitting inner closure capsule (15).

Description

The present invention relates to a container for beverage packaging.

In today's society, people consume many different types of beverages, for example carbonated beverages, juices, milk, dairy drinks, but also beer and wine, from packaging containers, such as 5 ration containers.

Currently, the bottle is one of the most common containers for beverages, which is in various sizes and with characteristic designs, that is, a conical cylindrical container at the top to an opening to drink from it, where the opening both can be removed, by using for example a screw cap, or it cannot be closed again once opened, such in the case in which a plug 10 is used, for example, which cannot be closed again. The materials commonly used for bottles are plastic, such as PET and glass.

Another common type of packaging containers is an aluminum can, a cylindrical container that can be stacked with a characteristic design to open the can, where a piece of aluminum breaks from the upper side of the can, thereby creating a hole from which to drink. fifteen

Still another common type of container is the Tetra Pak type container, on one of the larger lateral surfaces a straw is attached, covered with a plastic. At the time of consumption, this straw is removed from the container and nailed down through a hole covered by an aluminum foil, placed on the top surface of the container. After that, the user can drink from the container using the straw.

The Swedish patents with the numbers WO 2005/075303 (0400217-6) and WO 2005/075302 (0400218-4) disclose two additional types of containers, both cubic and stackable. Additionally, these containers can be closed again. WO 2005/075302 discloses a package according to the preamble of claim 1.

All types of known packages are affected by certain disadvantages.

A problem is that containers are often transported long distances, for example in large cargo vehicles. The type of cylindrical beverage container container of the beverage container containers 25 prevents optimum use of the cargo volume in vehicles of this type. The common PET bottle is usually put in boxes, which are then stacked firmly on top of each other. This means that large volumes surrounding the bottles, both above and below each respective bottle, will remain unused during transport. Therefore, this problem also exists, for example, for all other types of cylindrical container containers. 30

Another problem with many container containers is that they cannot be closed again. When the container container has been opened once, on a certain occasion for the consumption of its contents, the person who will consume the drink is generally forced to empty the container of its contents at once, as well as to throw away any remaining quantity that is not you want to consume at the moment when the container has been opened. On the contrary, usually the user wishes to drink a little and therefore be able to close the container again for later consumption. A solution to this problem exists in the bottle with a screw cap, for example a PET bottle, but, as described above, these bottles are associated with less than effective loading characteristics. Other common containers designed to be drunk from them, such as the aluminum can, the glass bottle with a capsule lid or the Tetra Pak container, generally cannot be closed again.

The cubic types of container containers disclosed in the Swedish patents under numbers 0400217-6 and 40 0400218-4 on the one hand are efficient in terms of loading and can be re-closed, but on the other hand they are associated with the additional problem that they are not suitable to be filled completely with the beverage during manufacturing. It is true that a complete refill is possible during manufacturing, but when the end user is going to open the container, to consume the drink, some of the beverage in the container easily splashes if the user does not direct the closure of the container straight up during the opening . In the case of document 0400217-6, this is because the drinking hole 45 placed in the closing device is placed below the surface of the liquid in the container when it is completely full; in the case of document 0400218-4, that is, correspondingly, because the corresponding drinking orifice during the opening operation will always be placed below the surface of the liquid inside the container. With the previous container according to document 0400218-4, it is also not possible to supply the container container, which comprises a box-shaped body and a closure piece, with a hygienic, inner closure, easily accessible. This is a problem since such a closure increases the hygienic safety of the user when using a container container subjected to external contamination during transport, storage and other handling.

Therefore, it would be desirable to achieve a container container in which it was not only effective from the point of view of the load with respect to its outer geometry, and which can be resealed, but also possible.

fill it completely during manufacturing without the risk to the user of splashing part of the beverage contained when opening the container and which may be provided with an internal, easily accessible hygienic closure.

The present invention according to claim 1 achieves such a container container.

Therefore, the present invention relates to a beverage container for liquids, in which a hole is placed, which hole can be resealed using a closure device, wherein the container of container is essentially or completely parallelepiped, comprising a hollow box-shaped body and the closure device, in which a corner of the parallelepiped hollow box-shaped body is chamfered, corner in which a triangular surface is formed, which connects with the body in box shape, where a tube-shaped piece extends outwardly from the surface, comprising the hole, wherein the closure device comprises an essentially pyramid-shaped body, designed so that, together with the body, it forms the parallelepiped container container when it is held on the triangular surface of the box-shaped body and a cavity to receive the tube-shaped piece, and where fixing means are placed that cooperate in the tube-shaped part as well as in the cavity, so as to retain so that the closure device can be removed in a tube-shaped part, so that the body Box-shaped and the closing device together form a parallelepiped. fifteen

The invention is characterized in that the closing device has a hole in one of its sides, which opens to the inside of the cavity, because a lid that can be opened and that can be closed again is placed to be able to close the hole and because The tube-shaped part comprises a tightly fitting inner closure capsule.

In the following, the invention will be explained in greater detail, partially in connection with exemplary embodiments of the invention and with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a schematic overall view showing the container container according to a preferred embodiment of the invention, with the closure device held in the box-shaped body.

Figure 2 is a cross-sectional view showing a preferred embodiment of the container container according to the invention.

Figure 3 is an overall view illustrating the method of filling the container container according to the invention during manufacturing.

Figure 1 illustrates a beverage container container 1 for liquids, in which a hole 5 (see Figure 2) is placed in the box-shaped body 2, hole 5 which can be resealed with the use of a closing device 3.

According to the invention, the package 1 is essentially or completely parallelepiped, comprising a hollow box-shaped body 2 and the closure device 3. One of the corners of the parallelepiped hollow box-shaped body 2 is chamfered, in which it forms a triangular surface 9 (see figure 2). The triangular surface 9 connects with said box-shaped body 2. The closure device 3 comprises an essentially pyramid-shaped body, designed so that it forms the parallelepiped container container 1 together with the box-shaped body 2 when the closure device 3 is held on the triangular surface 9 in the chamfered corner of the box-shaped body 2. The parallelepiped container 1 may be designed with beveled corners or other aesthetic modifications, such as with surfaces that are not completely uniform, under the condition that such aesthetic modifications do not make it impossible to achieve the purpose of achieving improved transport performance according to the invention.

In Figure 2, the container container 1 is shown in cross-section, wherein the container 1 is represented in a position in which the closure device 3 is fixed in the box-shaped body 2 using fixing means that cooperate 11. The cooperating fixing means 11 are partly placed in a tube-shaped part 4, partly inside the cavity 6 and are positioned to retain the closure device 3 in the tube-shaped part 4 , so that the box-shaped body 2 and the closure device 3 form in a parallelepiped container 1. 45

The tube-shaped piece that extends 4, which comprises a hole 5 and an upper surface 12, is placed on the triangular surface 9. The closure device 3 has a cavity 6, which is designed to receive the shaped piece of tube 4. The cavity 6 runs through the closing device 3 out to one of the outer surfaces 13 of the closing device 3, upwards to a hole 7. The hole 7 can be opened and closed again by the use of cover 14. 50

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, the cover 14 covers most of one of the sides 13 of the closure device 3. However, it should be noted that the cover 14 can be designed in other ways without leaving it of the inventive idea. For example, the cover 14 may extend to the corner of the closure device 3 facing away from the box-shaped body 2, then over the corner and down a certain distance along the surfaces 13 along which no hole 7 is placed in order to further increase hygiene 55 during transport and storage of container 1.

The upper and lower sides, respectively, of the container container 1, or the sides of the container container 1 are defined in Figure 1. The box-shaped body 2 in Figure 1 is supported on its lower side. The opposite side is the upper side of the container 1. The chamfered corner of the box-shaped body 2 is placed in one of the upper corners of the body 2. In other words, the closure device 3 is placed in one of the corners of the body 2 which is in contact with the upper side of the body 2. The hole 7 of the closure device 3 5 is placed on the upper side of the closure device 3.

The tube-shaped part 4 is positioned to be fastened tightly to the body in the form of a box 2, so that it cannot enter, or exit, liquid or gas from the inside of the body in the form of a box 2, except through the tube-shaped piece 4.

Additionally, the fixing means 11 are positioned to retain with tight adjustment the closing device 3 in the tube-shaped part 4, so that it cannot enter, exit, liquid or gas from the inside of the box-shaped body 2, when the closing device 3 is held in the box-shaped body 2, except through the channel which is formed by the combination of the tube-shaped part 4 and the cavity 6 of the closing device 3 and the which therefore runs from the inside of the box-shaped body 2 upwards to the hole 7.

In one embodiment, the fixing means 11 consists of a gas and liquid proof pressure lock. Preferably, the pressure lock consists of an edge 8 externally placed in the tube-shaped part 4 and a groove 10 internally placed in the cavity 6 of the closure device 3.

In another embodiment (not shown), the fixing means 11 consist of threads, which cooperate, gas and liquid proof, where the tube-shaped part 4 is equipped with external threads and the cavity 6 of the device Closure 3 is equipped with inner threads, where the respective threads are positioned to engage with a tight fit.

On the upper surface 12 of the tube-shaped part 4, a disposable capsule 15 is placed, which in a gas and liquid-proof manner closes the tube-shaped part 4 and therefore also the body in the form of box 2. Therefore, when the container container 1 is in its closed position, in which the capsule 15 remains on the tube-shaped part 4 and the closure device 3 is fixed on the box-shaped part 2 , can not enter, 25 or leave, liquid or gas inside the body in a box 2. The capsule 15 can be removed through the lid that can be opened 14 in the closing device 3. Once the capsule 15 has been removed, the liquid can exit the tube-shaped part 4 and into the cavity 6 of the closure device 3. However, as a consequence of the gas and liquid-proof fixing means 11 between the part in the form of a tube 4 and the closing device 3, the liquid cannot leave The closing device 3, as long as the container 1 is held in an upright position. Nor can liquid 30 be poured out of the cavity 6, through the hole 7 since it is placed in a position higher than the original level of the surface of the liquid inside the container 1 when the container 1 is kept vertical .

Preferably, the lid 14 is positioned to allow the closure device 3 to close and thereby the container 1, in a gas and liquid-proof manner. However, it is quite possible that the lid 14 is placed 35 merely by closing the closure device 3 in a liquid-proof manner, or that the lid 14 does not even provide a liquid-proof closure, but only offers protection for solid contaminants exteriors, which threaten to enter the interior of the cavity 6 of the closure device 3 and, in the case in which the capsule has been removed, possibly additionally downwards to the interior of the box-shaped body 2 of the container 1.

In a preferred embodiment, the cover 14 is additionally provided with a sanitary closure, which cannot be closed again (not shown). In this case, when the container 1 is used, the user must first remove the sanitary closure, whereby the capsule 15 can be removed and the liquid therefore consumed according to what has been said before in this document. The sanitary closure is preferably gas and liquid proof, in order to guarantee hygiene inside the cavity 6 during transport and storage of the container 1.

Therefore, the user opens the container 1 by first removing any sanitary closure and the lid 14. After that, the capsule 15 is removed, whereby liquid contained in a certain amount comes out of the cavity 6 but not out of the device closing 3. After that, the user can drink the liquid or pour the liquid out, into a glass, for example, from the hole 7. When the user has finished drinking or pouring and wishes to store the rest of the liquid for consumption at a later time, you can close the closing device 3 by closing the cover 14.

Figure 3 schematically shows the procedure for filling container container 1, during the manufacture thereof, according to the present invention.

In step A, the container 1 is filled with liquid, through the hole 5. This is achieved before the closure device 3 has been attached to the container 1 and with the container 1 in a position in which the hole 5 it is directed upwards, in order to make possible in this way the complete filling of the container 1, without splashing.

In step B, the closure device 3 is attached to the container container 1, using the fixing means 11. 55 This is achieved while the container 1 is still in the position described hereinabove, with the hole 5 directed towards above. Also, at this stage, the capsule 15 is attached to the tube-shaped piece 4. Additionally, this

This stage is finished by joining the sanitary closure on the lid 14 in the case where such a closure is used.

Once the container container 1 has been completely filled and the container 1 has been closed in a gas and liquid-proof manner, the container 1, in step C, can then be rotated so that it ends up in an upright position. This ends the filling procedure when the container container 1 is manufactured. 5

The embodiments described in this document should be contemplated as exemplary and not limiting of the invention. Therefore, it is possible to vary the invention within the scope of the appended claims.

Claims (5)

1. Beverage container (1) for liquids, in which a hole (5), orifice (5) is placed, which can be closed again using a closing device (3), where the container (1) is essentially or completely parallelepiped, comprising a hollow box-shaped body (2) and the closing device (3), in which a corner of the hollow body in the form of a parallelepiped box (2) is chamfered, corner in which forms a triangular surface (9), which connects with the box-shaped body (2), where a piece in the form of a tube (4) extends outward from the surface, comprising the hole (5), wherein the closure device (3) comprises an essentially pyramid-shaped body, designed so that, together with the body (2), it forms the parallelepiped container (1) when held on the triangular surface (9) of the box-shaped body (2) and a cavity (6) to receive the shaped piece of tube (4), and where fixing means (11) are placed that cooperate in the tube-shaped part (4) as well as in the cavity (6), to retain so that it can be removed and with a tightly tighten the closing device (3) in the tube-shaped part (4), so that the box-shaped body (2) and the closing device (3) together form a parallelepiped characterized in that the closing device (3) has a hole (7) on one of its sides, which opens to the inside of the cavity (6), because a lid that can be opened and that can be closed again (14) is placed to be able to close the hole (7) and because the tube-shaped part (4) 15 comprises a tight fitting inner closure capsule (15). 2. Beverage container according to claim 1 characterized in that the fixing means (11) consist of a pressure lock. 3. Beverage container according to claim 1 characterized in that the fixing means (11) consist of threads. twenty 4. Beverage container container according to any of claims 1-3 characterized in that the hole (7) is positioned to allow a user to drink, or pour the liquid, from the container container (1) when the lid (14) It is in an open position. 5. Beverage container according to any of claims 1-4 characterized in that the lid (14) comprises an additional sanitary closure that cannot be closed again. 25